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Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> BTW, why does this return const char* from typename(type) instead
> of just returning the enum object_type and letting the caller do
> typename() if they want it?  Most of our other code that returns
> types returns the enum, not the string.  :-\

It just was not converted from the old string interface.  I
thought you are old enough to remember ;-)